A review by adamvolle
The Korean War: A History by Bruce Cumings

3.0

I feel that other reviewers who have complained the book's title is misleading have failed a test of their reading comprehension; Cumings' overall argument is that we are the ones who don't know what the term signifies, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this generic name was chosen in order to lure in as many of us ignoramuses as possible.

Calling the book unwieldy is more valid, but it's impossible for me to mind when the information is so important and Cumings is the only popular historian so far I've found really telling it.